Béryl incident - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Answer some questions about nuclear tests, for 10 points each:

[10h] During this French nuclear test, several government officials were contaminated after an unexpected change in wind direction. French PM Pierre Messmer and prominent politician Gaston Palewski were witnesses to this event.

ANSWER: Béryl incident

[10e] Chagai I was a nuclear test conducted by a leader with this last name who declared that his people would eat grass or starve for his country to get a nuclear weapon. His daughter, Benazir, also served as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

ANSWER: Bhutto [Accept Benazir Bhutto or Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]

[10m] This country was accused of collaborating with South Africa for a nuclear weapons test in the Vela Incident. This country targeted neighboring countries’ nuclear reactors in military operations like Operation Orchard and Operation Opera.

ANSWER: Israel [or State of Israel or Medinat Yisra’el]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	21.11	100%	100%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	15.71	71%	86%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Michigan A	Ohio State D	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Oberlin	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Art of Premature Signaling	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Caltech	0	10	0	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	UCSB	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCSD	0	10	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Too much from you lately	0	10	10	20
BU	Brandeis	0	10	10	20
Brown	Belmont	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
RIT	Lexington	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	CWRU	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Catholic University of America	0	10	10	20
George Mason B	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	George Washington	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	10	10	30
mongeese	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	Gruh	0	10	10	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Goober Gang	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	evil women enjoyers	0	10	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Quatumvirate	we need new names	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
LSE	Cambridge	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Lancaster + Sheffield C	Sheffield C	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Warwick C	Manchester	0	10	10	20
UBC	McGill A	0	10	0	10
McGill B	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Mac A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Guelph	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	Waterloo A	10	10	10	30
Waterloo B	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	10	20
Truman State	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Missouri	0	10	10	20
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
WashU Charmander	WashU Squirtle	0	10	10	20
South Dakota School of Mines	Arizona State University A	0	0	10	10
Washington Connections	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University B	UW A	0	0	10	10
UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20